Japanese Society for Bioinformatics

AbbreviationJSBi
Formation1999 (1999)
TypeLearned society
Membership (2018)
512[1]
President
Wataru Iwasaki
AffiliationsInternational Society for Computational Biology
Websitewww.jsbi.org/en/

The Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) is a Japanese research society on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology established in 1999.[2] The society is an affiliated regional group of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB),[3] and a member of Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi). Supporting corporate members include the Japanese companies Hitachi, Fujitsu and Shionogi.[2][4]

Since 2001, the JSBi and Oxford University Press have awarded the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics Prize for outstanding young scientists in bioinformatics.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Japanese Society for Bioinformatics - JSBi :: About JSBi". www.jsbi.org. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b Nakai, Kenta (15 August 2007). "THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF BIOINFORMATICS (JSBi)". Asia-Pacific Biotech News. 11 (15): 1056–1057. doi:10.1142/S0219030307001140.
  3. ^ "Affiliates & COSIs". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Japanese Society for Bioinformatics - JSBi :: 賛助会員". www.jsbi.org (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Japanese Society for Bioinformatics - JSBi :: Oxford Journals - JSBi Prize". www.jsbi.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Japanese Society for Bioinformatics - JSBi :: home". www.jsbi.org. Retrieved 22 August 2023.